Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

It is, and it can remain there.

We were here till all hours of the evening with less than 15 minutes to debate the varied legislation—the childcare legislation et cetera. I could go on and on and on about the number of bills that were guillotined through here. It is absolute hypocrisy for them to stand up day after day, saying that they need to have their say on these bills, when at the very same time last year we were here until way past midnight while Labor and the Greens guillotined bill after bill. It is absolute hypocrisy.

We are improving the ability of people in Indigenous communities to take control of their own economic destiny, and we have kick-started talks at APAC. One of the election promises the Prime Minister made prior to the election was that the first country he would visit on becoming Prime Minister would be Indonesia, and it was. The Commission of Audit is underway to deal with the debt and to actually kick-start our economy and start getting rid of the layers of regulation and burden that you have wrapped up our most productive sectors in in that short six years—the most significant examination of the cost of government in more than a decade.

We are delivering on the one-stop shop with the states for environmental bilateral approval and assessment processes. That is going to be a much-welcomed change, and an election promise that I am looking forward to delivering on. I am sure that discussions on Friday will assist that. It was one of Labor's own legislative programs until the hasty-hasty deal with Windsor and the Greens, and you backed away from it. But do not worry: we will get the job done.

Work is underway with state governments to fast-track the new major road links and upgrades as we promised at the election. We have established, as we promised, the Prime Minister's Business Advisory Council and the Indigenous Advisory Council. Compensation will be available to victims of terrorism overseas, as we said it would be. And last week we concluded negotiations for a free trade agreement with South Korea, as we said we would do. We said that we would fast-track those negotiations to ensure that our producers can get our fabulous produce, financial services and the like into countries of strategic importance. Regional Australia is going to be the big winner out of the Korean free trade agreement—$700 million to beef, $500 million to sugar and a significant increase for our dairy industry, which is going gang busters every single day.

We are dealing with Labor's debt legacy, and that is going to take a little longer, Senator Farrell, than the little under 100 days you are wanting us to get it all fixed by. It will be a little longer because it is such a mess.